Sports

Allstate Arena has been the home of the Chicago Wolves of the American Hockey League since they were inaugurated in 1994.^[10]

Allstate Arena was the home of DePaul University men's basketball team until the end of the 2016–17 season. The Blue Demons previously played on campus at Alumni Hall. That gym has since been replaced with McGrath-Phillips Arena, home to the women's basketball program through that team's 2016–17 season. The building hosted the NCAA basketball tournament three times: the 1987 and 1993 Midwest Regional first and second-round games, and the 2005 Chicago Regional Finals.

The Arena Football League also has a long history with Allstate Arena. The Horizon hosted an arena football test game in 1987 and the Chicago Bruisers were an original Arena Football League team when the league began in 1987. The Bruisers played from 1987 to 1989, and hosted ArenaBowl II in Rosemont, losing to the Detroit Drive, 24–13. In 2001, Arena Football returned to the arena with the Chicago Rush. The Rush increased its home attendance each year from 2001 to 2008, and from 2004 to 2008 averaged between 14,000 and 16,000 fans per game. The Rush's highest home attendance is 16,391 on June 23, 2007, against the Kansas City Brigade. After the AFL restructured in 2009, the Rush returned to the Arena Football League.^[11]

On October 25, 2008, the Allstate Arena hosted UFC 90, the first Ultimate Fighting Championship event in the state of Illinois.

The Professional Bull Riders brought their Built Ford Tough Series tour for events in 2006 and 2008.^[12][13] As of 2018, the tour has held the Chicago Invitational event here every year since 2010.^[14][15] PBR plans to continue this event in Chicago in 2019.^[16]

The arena is where the monster truck racing track style known as "Chicago-style" was created.

The Chicago Sky of the WNBA announced on August 17, 2009, that the team reached a multi-year lease with the arena.

In 1989, Loyola Ramblers men's basketball became tenants of the arena, moving from the International Amphitheatre. The team played its home games at the Rosemont Horizon during their 1989–90, 1990–91, 1991–92, 1992–93, and 1993–94 seasons before moving to a renovated Alumni Gym on their campus.^[17][18][19]

During the 2012-13 NHL lockout, Allstate Arena was the site of the Champs for Charity Hockey Game where current and former Chicago Blackhawks hosted fellow NHL players in front of 10,000+ fans.

DePaul left the arena after the 2016–17 season for the new Wintrust Arena in Chicago, leaving the arena without a permanent college basketball tenant, although Northwestern University moved its men's home basketball games to the arena temporarily for the 2017–18 season before returning to its on-campus home at Welsh–Ryan Arena in Evanston, after a full-academic-year renovation of that facility.

Championships and playoffs

2008 Calder Cup Finals

• AFL ArenaBowl II
• AHL Calder Cup
  • Qualifier (Western Conference): 2002
  • Western Conference Quarterfinals: 2002, 2003 West Division Semifinals 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2010 Western Conference Quarterfinals: 2012, 2014, 2015
  • Western Conference Semifinals: 2002, 2003 West Division Finals: 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2010 Western Conference Semifinals: 2014
  • Western Conference Finals: 2002, 2005, 2007, 2008
  • Calder Cup Finals: 2002, 2005, 2008, 2019, 2022
• IHL Turner Cup
  • 1/8 Finals: 1994–95, 1995–96, 1996–97, 1997–98
  • Quarterfinals: 1995–96 Western Conference Quarterfinals: 1997–98, 1998–99, 1999–2000, 2000–01
  • Semifinals (Western Conference): 1999–2000, 2000–01
  • Turner Cup Finals: 1999–2000, 2000–01
• WNBA Playoffs
  • WNBA Eastern Conference Semifinals: 2013, 2014, 2015 WNBA Playoffs Second Round: 2016
  • WNBA Eastern Conference Finals: 2013, 2014 WNBA Semifinals: 2016

Professional wrestling

Allstate Arena before the airing of WWE Raw in August 2021

The Allstate Arena is the standard venue for WWE events in Chicago. For decades, WWE's most prominent figures have appeared at this venue. These include Hulk Hogan, Bret Hart, Ric Flair, The Rock, Steve Austin, John Cena, Triple H, Roman Reigns, and the "hometown hero" CM Punk. Since 1986, WWE has held numerous Pay-per-view, non-televised, NXT, Raw, and SmackDown shows in the arena. Allstate Arena is also one of two venues (the other being Madison Square Garden) to host WrestleMania three times: namely the second segment of WrestleMania 2 in 1986, WrestleMania 13 in 1997, and WrestleMania 22 in 2006. WrestleMania 22 is also notable for being the last WrestleMania to date to be held in a smaller arena, until WrestleMania 36, which was held at the WWE Performance Center in Orlando, Florida, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic^[20] (WrestleMania 36 was initially set to be held at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida; the stadium hosted WrestleMania 37 instead).^[21] Due to the event's rapid growth in popularity, since WrestleMania 23 at Detroit's Ford Field, the annual event, recognized by WWE as "The Grandest Stage of Them All", has been held in larger venues; primarily football stadiums. Since 2006, WrestleMania has not returned to the Chicago area, as the city has presumably failed to provide a large enough venue for the event; the largest currently being Soldier Field, the smallest NFL stadium.

The venue has also hosted The Wrestling Classic in 1985, three editions of Survivor Series (1989, 2019, and 2023), No Mercy 2007, Night of Champions 2010, two editions of Judgment Day (1998 and 2009), two editions of Extreme Rules (2012 and 2015), two editions of Backlash (2001 and 2017), two editions of Money in the Bank (2011 and 2018), three editions of Payback (2013, 2014^[22] and 2016), the two editions of NXT TakeOver: Chicago (2017, 2018), NXT TakeOver: WarGames (2019) and Hell in a Cell 2022.

As of 2024, there have only been three instances where WWE has hosted an event in Chicago outside the Allstate Arena; that being SummerSlam 1994, a WWE Road To WrestleMania (34) Live Event, and a 2018 Holiday Tour Live Event, all held at the United Center.

When the arena was known as Rosemont Horizon, the venue hosted American Wrestling Association (AWA) events in the Chicago area during the 1980s, replacing the International Amphitheatre. It was also the standard venue for World Championship Wrestling (WCW) events in the Chicago area during the mid-1990s, replacing the UIC Pavilion. WCW held Spring Stampede at the arena in April 1994, as well as an episode of WCW Monday Nitro in October 1995. However, it would later switch to using the United Center for its shows in the region.

Concerts

The arena has been the site of many concerts, including by The Rolling Stones, Bon Jovi, Van Halen, Prince, Whitney Houston, Michael Jackson, The Cure, U2, Bruce Springsteen, Madonna, Elton John, BTS, Blackpink, Taylor Swift, Scorpions, AC/DC, Tina Turner, Metallica, Andrea Bocelli, Green Day, Grateful Dead, Phish, My Chemical Romance, Marilyn Manson, Nine Inch Nails, Ricky Martin, Lorde, Foo Fighters, R.E.M., Justin Bieber, Queen, Rauw Alejandro and Trans-Siberian Orchestra.

Styx recorded their reunion live album Return To Paradise at the arena on September 21, 1996.

Gabriel Iglesias' Netflix special, I'm Sorry for What I Said When I Was Hungry, was filmed at the arena in 2016.

Reagan-Bush rally

George H. W. Bush and Ronald Reagan holding a 1984 campaign rally in the arena

On November 4, 1984, Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush held a campaign rally in the Horizon, two days before the 1984 presidential election.^[25]